Tag: resilience

  • REACT4EJ launches website for supporting grassroots environmental justice movements

    REACT4EJ launches website for supporting grassroots environmental justice movements

    The EPA Region 4 Thriving Communities Technical Assistance Center (TCTAC), known as REACT4EJ, has launched a website providing resources to environmental justice movements. EJ TCTACs are institutions and organizations that aim to support existing and new community projects through guidance and training on grant writing, project management, government engagement and more.  “This new Environmental Justice […]

  • ERDC publication explores how natural infrastructure projects can prioritize human wellbeing

    ERDC publication explores how natural infrastructure projects can prioritize human wellbeing

    In a new paper published in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, authors from the U.S. Army Engineer Research & Development Center (ERDC) explore the psychological, physiological, medical, and social benefits to humans of exposure to nature, and how natural infrastructure (NI) projects can take these into account to continue to deliver those benefits. The author team […]

  • CITRA Student Austin Ramirez at the 2024 Southeast ASCE Student Symposium

    CITRA Student Austin Ramirez at the 2024 Southeast ASCE Student Symposium

    Originally published here by the Compound Inundation Team for Resilient Applications. This past March, CITRA team member, Austin Ramirez Pineda, and the University of Georgia’s American Society of Civil Engineering chapter attended the 2024 Southeast ASCE Student Symposium hosted by the University of Central Florida. 19 universities such as Kennesaw State University, University of Florida, […]